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Well looky here!  It’s Al birthday, but he’s the one giving us gifts (or at least, the webmaster is).  Go check out the new pictures and fan art at The Official Weird Al Website.  New pics on stage, pics from inside the tour bus, Al and a dinosaur, etc…   Good stuff.

Welp, the tour is over for now, and Al made a new blog post on MySpace giving thanks to all his wonderful concert goers. Also, if you were not able to see the special on the Biography channel recently simply because you don’t subscribe to it, the show will be broadcast on the A&E channel November 18 early Sunday morning. Woo woo!

And will there be more shows added to the tour next year? Well, so far that’s up in the air. As one of the fellow tour-chasers, we all want to give a big THANK YOU to you and the band and crew for creating such an entertaining show night after night after night after night after night after night after night.

Also, last but not least…

Happy Birthday, Al!!!

Here, have some cake. It’s so delicious and moist.

Recently, the following conversation took place:

Torsoboy: Huh, we still haven’t posted a news item about Al in the Transfromers.
HappySteve: Transformers? What are you talking about?
Torsoboy: I dunno. Our friend Devo was telling us that Al is … oh here, according to this entry on IMDb, Al will be providing the voice of Wreck-Gar in the upcoming new Transformers animated series or something.
HappySteve: Huh. I hadn’t heard about that. Any idea when it will debut?
Torsoboy: The folks who edit Wikipedia seem to think it will be next spring… they also tend to think that Atlantic Records sucks. I read that somewhere.
HappySteve: We should probably tell people about this.
Torsoboy: Eh, I’m too lazy to post about it.

The Official Weird Al Site has just put up some new pictures from the tour plus fan art.

The A.V. Club has just put up an interview with our main man, Weird Al, asking about his tastes in pop music, what songs would he redo, and Bob Odenkirk.

Read the full interview

Oh things just haven’t been the same, since the flying saucer came. The UFO has landed and we’ll tell you where they are… apparently in Orange County, California. During the O.C. Fair, just when Weird Al had finished singing “The Saga Begins” complete with stormtroopers on stage, a 3-ft wide foam saucer had flown over the venue. How perfect was that?!? When they found the guy responsible, a Mr. Linn Murphy in a dark park behind the fair (possibly eating some UFO tofu), Al says:

“You’re the guy who stole my show! Everyone give him a hand.”

And thus he was given a standing ovation. Read the whole story about the UFO

(gakked from Tim Ryan in alt.music.weird-al)

The Biography Channel will be airing Al’s “Biography” special tonight at 10 p.m. Eastern. If you miss it, or feel like watching it again, you can do so early tomorrow morning at 2 a.m Eastern. Woo!

While Al’s touring around California nowadays, he visited his old college radio station…

Weird Al Yankovic returns to radio roots to dedicate Cal Poly’s new KCPR studios

Fame and Fortune: Weird Al Yankovic

Bankrate.com interviews Weird Al on his career, his mad rapping skills, and what’s next after the tour.   Nothing too earth-shattering, but Al does hint at possible feature films and/or television projects.  Woo!

(Found by Greg on Woway)

Surf on over to WeirdAl.com’s Gallery Page for a slew of concert pics, pics of Al’s head from the ‘Weasel Stomping Day’ video, and a plethora of fan art.